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McAfee feeling better, fighting expulsion to Belize, lawyer says

By Sonia Perez-Diaz Associated Press

Posted:
12/07/2012 12:52:53 PM PST

Updated:
12/07/2012 12:57:34 PM PST

GUATEMALA CITY -- A lawyer for software company founder John McAfee says the self-styled fugitive is feeling better after suffering chest pain, and hopes to stay in Guatemala despite the rejection of his political asylum request.

Attorney Telesforo Guerra told reporters outside the detention center where McAfee is being held that the creator of the McAfee antivirus program is in good health, and his team is filing four separate legal appeals in an effort to prevent his return to Belize, where police want to question him in connection with the fatal shooting of another U.S. expatriate. He expects McAfee to stay at least until Monday.

McAfee says he had no involvement in the shooting of his neighbor on a Belizean island, and authorities are persecuting him because he knows about official corruption.